It’s been a while since I’ve had a weekend away from Wellington, without having also left New Zealand. Since moving to this part of the country, I have yet to see much of the surrounding area. This coming weekend is Labour Day in New Zealand. My girlfriend and I each have Friday booked off to make it a 4-day weekend. At this point, plans are fairly loose, but we’ve got bookings in Taupo and Rotorua. If the weather plays along, it should be a brilliant weekend. In any case, we’re both planning on going a little camera crazy.

In between getting home from work and running off to volleyball, I was told that my house is shifting all over again. One flatmate is taking a new job in Rotorua and the other has decided to take the opportunity to move on before a new lease ties her down. They asked what I wanted to do. I’m quite tired of moving around. I’ve been in this house about a month, and I kinda like it. However, I don’t own the house furniture, and I’m likely going to have to dump a bit of money into getting stuff. None of the options that I’m looking at are particularly attractive.

I’ve got about a month or so to get things worked out. I’m assuming that I’ll keep the place and just get in some flatmates, so I’ll need some time to arrange that, too. The rent isn’t so high that I couldn’t ride it out for a while, to find some people that I’d want to live with, but that’s definitely going to cut into my decent-furniture budget. There is a plus side, though. I get to decorate however I want, and I’ll have room to put plants where I think they belong, instead of just in the spaces that are left over.